" I'll be fine. The Kilauea guys are a great crew to work with. We've gotten very close to each other." Do they wonder, about what's really going on?"...Oh of course. The slip-ships are magic. But there's an old Earth saying, about not looking a gift horse in the mouth. To all the other personnel, they're The Builders. They're very good actors. You should see them. Nobody else realizes the ships are building themselves..."Mayoni frowned. "All these delays though... I still suspicious... Really. John Shepherd was excited and he was definitely not thinking about why. It was enough that a problem was (probably at least) on its way to a solution. Terry and Anh were excited that they'd be together again. Jenni and Marty were missing each other. Tom was just excited; he didn't know what was waiting for him in Ipswich.Marty brought Emily Jane alongside her berth neatly and Tom hopped over the rail to drop the bowlines of the springs over the quay bitts before clambering up the ratlines to. She’s wearing her hair short, cut just below the ears. Not a style that would normally get my interest, but on her, it looks perfect for her facial features. She’s wearing a tight-fitting top, dark in colour, covered in small, bright geometrical shapes. Around her waist sits one of those small pouches that I’ve always known as a “fanny pack”. I remember back to days gone by when I served with a volunteer first-aid corps. We had similar pouches to carry our necessary supplies while patrolling. The mage looked up at me, one eyebrow raised, clearly confused.“He ... he said he didn’t know who I was. I think ... he’s lost his memory?” I was near tears; of all the things I’d expected when Faren awoke, losing him again hadn’t been anywhere on the list. Being yelled at, sure; I was prepared for that. But how do I even start to explain everything – who he was to me, and how I had tried to kill him? “Can the poison do that?”Anders frowned and looked down at his patient. My mind spun uselessly.